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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 554
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
100 PM EDT Thu Jul 18 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Central and Eastern North Carolina
  Southeast Virginia
  Coastal Waters

* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 100 PM until
  900 PM EDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely
  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible

SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will continue to intensify across central
North Carolina and central Virginia this afternoon and track
eastward across the watch area.  The strongest cells will pose a
risk of locally damaging wind gusts.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 100
statute miles east and west of a line from 15 miles east southeast
of Fayetteville NC to 50 miles northeast of Roanoke Rapids NC. For a
co*plete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4).

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

REMEMBER...A Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are
favorable for severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area.
Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening
weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible
warnings. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce
tornadoes.

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AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few
cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
28025.

...Hart